Ezra Pound
53 copies for sale · $20–$3,800 · 31 first editions · 9 signed
Notable copies for sale
Umbra (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$3,800
Redondillas, or Something of That Sort (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$1,750
Diptych Rome-London: Homage to Sextus Propertius & Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Contacts and Life (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$1,600
Imaginary Letters (first edition, signed) — James Cummins Bookseller$3,250
Gaudier-Brzeska (first edition) — Burnside Rare Books$1,100
Personae (first edition) — Burnside Rare Books$750
IF THIS BE TREASON...... (first edition) — Lorne Bair Rare Books$650
Imaginary Letters (first edition) — James Cummins Bookseller$500
Cavalcanti Poems (signed) — John Windle Antiquarian$2,500
Cavalcanti Poems (signed) — Burnside Rare Books$2,500
Provenca ; Poems Selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere of Ezra Pound (first edition) — MW Books€475
THE APPLE of Beauty and Discord . Vol. 1, No. 1. First Quarter, 1920. Periodical (first edition) — James Cummins Bookseller$250
What these are worth
POEMS 1918 - 21 Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos (first edition)3 copies from 3 sellers
Each page gathers every copy on the market, what similar copies have fetched, and the spread between them.
Works on the market
PERSONAE & A DRAFT OF XXX CANTOS; Franklin Library4 copies · $173–$273
POEMS 1918 - 21 Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos3 copies · $125–$400
Imaginary Letters2 copies · $500–$3,250
Cavalcanti Poems2 copies · $2,500
Umbra2 copies · $600–$650
Polite Essays2 copies · £30–£100
The Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-19412 copies · €33–€95
SELECTED POEMS OF EZRA POUND2 copies · $20–$58
PATRIA MIA and THE TREATISE ON HARMONY2 copies · $35–$40
Umbra1 copy · $3,800
Collection Of Pound Publications Including Raphaelite Latin Two Spiral Notebooks With Note1 copy · $2,500
Ezra Pound’s Cavalcanti Poems1 copy · $2,000
Redondillas, or Something of That Sort1 copy · $2,000
Redondillas, or Something of That Sort1 copy · $1,750
Diptych Rome-London: Homage to Sextus Propertius & Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Contacts and Life1 copy · $1,600
Gaudier-Brzeska1 copy · $1,100
CANTO I.1 copy · $750
Personae1 copy · $750
IF THIS BE TREASON......1 copy · $650
IMAGINARY LETTERS1 copy · $500
Market context
36 copies of Ezra Pound's works have left the market recently; the median last-listed price was $100 (last listed prices at time of sale or removal, not confirmed sale prices).
Recent auction results (hammer prices, premiums not included):
A Selection of Poems, 1940, first edition thus; offsetting to front and rear endpapers, ja (forum, 2026-09-03)£170
ABC of Economics, first edition, 1933 (forum, 2026-04-23)£400
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